When tragedy comes to the German grand ducal House of Hesse it strikes with all its fateful weight. First great blow to the ancient German family was the discovery that it had contributed to the ...

The mystery surrounding the fate of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, so often solved, has been solved again. In the expressive words of Le Matin, Paris Journal: “General Janin [onetime head of the ...

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The murder of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son in 1918, plus how the Soviet Union struggled to feed its people in the 1950s; also the IRA attacks on mounted ...

Tsar Nicholas II, one of the most disastrous rulers in modern history, ascended the throne on 1 November 1894. Grand Duke Nicholas was born in May 1868 to the Tsarevitch, Alexander Alexandrovitch, and ...

But first a bit of background. The electrifying debut of the Ballet Russes in Paris in 1909 undoubtedly changed the course of culture and fashion; the fairy-tale and far-away fantasies on the stage ...

The mystic peasant Rasputin was a trusted adviser of the Russian royal family but made deadly enemies. His violent 1916 assassination is the stuff of legend, leaving historians to piece together what ...

The Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son, were shot in the cellar of a house in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. Olga Romanoff is his great niece. She spoke to Olga ...

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FOR eight years I had been professor of French to the four Grand Duchesses, daughters of the Tsar Nicholas II, when, in the autumn of 1913, I was appointed tutor to the Grand Duke Alexis Nikolaievich, ...